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nation_n	danger_n	defend_v	great_a	74	3	2.0859	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30413	Romes glory, or, A collection of divers miracles wrought by popish saints, both during their lives and after their deaths collected out of their own authors for information of all true-hearted Protestants ; together with a prefatory discourse declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1673 (1673)	Wing B5868; ESTC R34774	41,373	148

according to the command from their Father brought the Tythes of all their gains by Fishing and Offered them to St. Peter and the Priests attending Divine Service in his Church But one among them having presumed to defraud the Church of this Oblation presently was deprived of the wonted benefit of his Trade till having confess'd his fault and restored what he had reserv'd he promised amendment for the future And moreover the Fisherman who was very simple and as yet not a Christian described to the Bishop very exactly the Shape and Lineaments of St. Peter well known to the Bishop by his Picture at Rome Cr. p. 308. St. Lawrence found the Son of a man who had kindly entertained him dead and the Parents in great sorrow who with a loud voice cryed to him O holy man restore our Son to us that we may more firmly believe in Christ. Hereupon the Bishop having offered up his Prayers said to the Child arise who presently rose up and withal testified That being dead his Soul was violently drawn by horrible Spirits to the flames of Hell but upon the Prayers of St. Lawrence it was by Angels shining with brightness brought back to the Body Cr. p. 327. A Miracle wrought at King Oswald's Cross. Bothelm a Monk of Hagulstad walking unwarily by night upon the Ice fell suddenly and broke his Arm one morning having heard that one of his Brethren was to go that day to the place of the Holy Cross he desired him to bring him a small portion of that sacred Wood for he said he was confident it would cure him by Gods help The Brother performed what he desired and gave him a little of the Moss which covered the outside of the Wood which he put into his bosom when he went to bed forgetting to lay it by it remained in his bosom all night but waking about midnight he felt something that was cold lying against his side and searching for it with his Hand he perceived that both his Hand and Arm were become perfectly whole Cr. p. 347. A certain Woman who had a long time been deprived both of her Sight and Hearing to her it was suggested by Revelation that she should repair to the Bishop Birinus for her Cure she delay'd not therefore but took with her a Guide to conduct her The Bishop therefore seeing the Womans piety immediately made the sign of the Cross upon her Eyes and Ears whereupon both her-Sight and Hearing were restored to her Cr. p. 351. St. Fursey's wonderful Visions On a certaim time he was rapt from his body and in that extasie which continued from evening to Cock-crowing he was favoured with the sight of troops of Angels Three days after being again in an extasie he saw yet more glorious apparitions of Angels Moreover there were discovered to him very earnest contentions of wicked Spirits who by many Accusations of a certain Sinner lately dead endeavoured to stop his passage to Heaven but by reason the holy Angels protected him they could not effect their desire On a certain time being elevated in spirit he was commanded by the Angels which conducted him to look down upon the Earth whereupon bowing his Eyes downward he saw as it were a dark Valley under him in a very low bottom He saw likewise in the Air four Fires not much distant one from another and asking the Angels what Fires those were he was told that those were the Fires which now inflamed the World and would in the end consume it viz. the Fire of Lying the Fire of Covetousness the Fire of Dissention and the Fire of Iniquity Now these four Fires increasing by little at last joyned together and became an immense Flame and when they approached near them Fursey was affraid and said to the Angel Sir behold the Flames come close to us but the Angel answered Fear not for since thou didst not kindle this Fire it will not burn thee for though this Flame seems to thee great and terrible yet it tryes every one according to his Merits so that the Concupiscence which is in any one shall burn in this Fire for accordingly as every one being in the Body is inflamed by unlawful pleasures so being loosed from his Body shall he burn by condign torment Then he saw one of the three Angels which in both Visions had been his Conductors go before the other and divide the Flame and the other two flying on each side of him which defended him from the danger of the Fire He saw likewise many Devils flying through the Fire and kindling war against the Just These malign Spirits pursued him likewise with Accusations but the good Angels defended him And after this he saw great numbers of blessed Spirits among which some were of his own Nation Priests who had well discharged their Office as he had heard by report by these he was informed of many things very profitable both to himself and all who are willing to attend them When they had finished their speeches and were returned to Heaven with the rest of the Angels there remained only with St. Fursey the three Angels mentioned before who were to restore him to his body And when he came close to the foresaid great Fire one of the Angels divided it as before but when the Man of God was come to a door which stood open among the Flames the unclean Spirits snatching up one of those whom they were tormenting in the Flames and casting him against him touched him and burnt his Shoulder and one of his Cheeks He knew the Man and remembred when he was ready to dye he had received from him a Garment But the Angel laying hold of him cast him back into the Fire but the Devil answered Do not cast him back since you have once received him for as you have taken the Goods belonging to a Sinner so you must be partakers of his Punnishment but the Angel replied He took not that out of Covetuousness but for saving the Mans Soul After this the burning ceased and the Angel turning himself to St. Fursey said The Fire that thou hast kindled has now burnt thee for if thou hadst not received Money from this Man who is dead in his sins thou hadst not tasted of his torments St. Fursey being afterwards restored to his body carried visibly in his shoulder and cheek all his life time the marks of the burning which he had suffered in his soul. Cr. p. 354. St. Eanswitha's Monastery being seated on the top of high Rocks they found this incommodity in their retirement which was a penury of sweet water The holy Virgin was sensible of this inconvenience and after she had by Prayer sollicited our Lord she went to the Fountain more than a mile remote from the Monastery and striking the water with a Staff commanded it to follow her the deaf Element heard and obeyed the sacred Virgins voice and against the inclination of Nature followed her steps till overcoming all the difficulties of